Children's stories

• The Gremlins (1943)
• James and the Giant Peach (1961)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
• The Magic Finger (1966)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970)
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
• Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
• The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
• The Twits (1980)
• George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
• The BFG (1982)
• The Witches (1983)
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
• Matilda (1988)
• Esio Trot (1989)
• The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1990)
• The Minpins (1991)

Children's poetry

• Revolting Rhymes (1982)
• Dirty Beasts (1984)
• Rhyme Stew (1989)

Non-fiction

• The Mildenhall Treasure (1946, 1977, 1999)
• Boy – Tales of Childhood (1984)
• Going Solo (1986)
• Measles, a Dangerous Illness (1988)
• Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991)
• Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991)
• My Year (1993)
• Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. (1994)
• Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes by Felicity Dahl, et al. (2001)

Adult fiction

• Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948)
• My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Short story collections

• Over To You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)
• Someone Like You (1953)
• Lamb to the Slaughter (1953)
• Kiss Kiss (1960)
• Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl (1969)
• Switch Bitch (1974)
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977)
• The Best of Roald Dahl (1978)
• Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
• More Tales of the Unexpected (1980)
• Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983)
• The Roald Dahl Omnibus (Dorset Press, 1986)
• Two Fables (1986)
• Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl (1989)
• The Collected Short Stories of Dahl (1991)
• The Roald Dahl Treasury (1997)
• The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1997)
• Skin And Other Stories (2000)
• Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)